desire是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. /n. 愿望， 欲望， 要求，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Lord Glenarvan felt no great desire to inquire into the causes of this decay, though Paganel tried to draw him into a discussion on the subject.
-- Paganel had a great desire to play on it.
-- As the day drew to a close, Glenarvan had a desire to go again to the point on the coast cut by the 37th parallel.
-- Paganel was less absorbed by the culinary importance of the game than by the desire of obtaining some bird peculiar to New Zealand.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Being himself childless, it was his openly ex-pressed desire that the whole country-side should, within his own lifetime, profit by his good fortune, and many will have personal reasons for bewailing his untimely end.
-- You tell me in the same breath that it is useless to investigate Sir Charles's death, and that you desire me to do it.'
-- If the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men ' 'Then you are yourself inclining to the supernatural ex-planation.'
-- If you seriously desire to deceive me you must change your tobacconist; for when I see the stub of a cigarette marked Bradley, Oxford Street, I know that my friend Watson is in the neighbourhood.
-- 'When do you desire to go?'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I assure you, ever since yesterday evening I have had the strongest desire to go on and on talking Russian.'
-- I wish to know whether you desire this arrangement or whether you do not?
-- 'I do desire it,' murmured Gania, softly but firmly, lower-ing his eyes; and he relapsed into gloomy silence.
-- Having remarked how difficult it was for him, of all people, to speak to her of these matters, Totski concluded by saying that he trusted Nasta-sia Philipovna would not look with contempt upon him if he now expressed his sincere desire to guarantee her future by a gift of seventy-five thousand roubles.
-- He added that the sum would have been left her all the same in his will, and that therefore she must not consider the gift as in any way an indemnification to her for anything, but that there was no reason, after all, why a man should not be allowed to entertain a natural desire to lighten his conscience, etc., etc.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Never yet was I so pas-sionately enamoured of you as at this moment not even when I first carried you off from Lacedaemon and sailed away with you not even when I had converse with you upon the couch of love in the island of Cranae was I so en-thralled by desire of you as now.'
-- And Alexandrus answered, 'Hector, your rebuke is just; listen therefore, and believe me when I tell you that I am not here so much through rancour or ill-will towards the Trojans, as from a desire to indulge my grief.
-- Then they fought furiously in close combat about the body of Alcathous, wielding their long spears; and the bronze ar-mour about their bodies rang fearfully as they took aim at one another in the press of the fight, while the two heroes Aeneas and Idomeneus, peers of Mars, outvied everyone in their desire to hack at each other with sword and spear.
-- As soon as he did so he became inflamed with the same passionate desire for her that he had felt when they had first enjoyed each other's embraces, and slept with one another without their dear parents knowing anything about it.
-- But I will not stay my anger, nor permit any god to help the Danaans till I have accomplished the desire of the son of Peleus, according to the promise I made by bowing my head on the day when Thetis touched my knees and be-sought me to give him honour.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "My reason for coming to Iping," he proceeded, with a certain deliberation of manner, "was .. a desire for solitude.
-- A frantic desire to free himself took possession of Kemp.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is strange, but I felt no desire to return to mankind.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The book was open at a hymn not ill adapted to their situation, and in which the poet, no longer goaded by his desire to excel the inspired King of Israel, had discovered some chastened and respectable powers.
-- Heyward felt a burning desire to rush forward to meet them, so intense was the delirious anxiety of the moment; but he was restrained by the deliberate ex-amples of the scout and Uncas.
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